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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

On 3 Oct 2014, at 10:39, Nicole Harris <harris AT terena.org> wrote:

> I know Ian has spoken before about how he carries out certain filtering
> for technical issues with entities for other federations but I don't
> know if that is specifically written up anywhere. 

I should really write this up in detail sometime. Until I do, you can always 
"Use the source, Luke."...

  https://github.com/ukf/ukf-meta

particularly

  https://github.com/ukf/ukf-meta/blob/master/mdx/validation-beans.xml

  https://github.com/ukf/ukf-meta/blob/master/mdx/common-beans.xml

It's pretty much all there in public now.


> One of the things that occurs to me is that given the potential size of
> the edugain metadata, scaling these sort of decisions on a per entity
> basis is a significant overhead for federations

Absolutely. I can't see any chance of us ever doing it proactively. We might 
act on a specific complaint from a member, but even then it would probably 
have to be a pretty extreme case; after all, no IdP is compelled to interact 
with a problematic SP so unless the site's content was clearly illegal in the 
UK it would almost always be easier for everyone to just ignore it.

> and we may yet again be
> having a conversation about the need for tagging :-) 

I suspect that tagging things as "potentially offensive to Brits" or the like 
might be problematic for a number of reasons. But you're right, we're 
probably going to have to have the conversation at some point.

        -- Ian

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